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Tactoids are pointed, spindlelike droplets of nematic liquid crystal in an isotropic fluid. They have long been observed inorganic and organic nematics, thermotropic phases as well lyotropic colloidal aggregates. The variational problem determining the optimal shape a droplet is formidable has only attacked selected classes shapes director fields. Here, by considering special class admissible s...

Detecting the region of emergent events is an important application of wireless sensor networks (WSN). One of the key challenges in detecting event in a WSN is how to detect it accurately while transmitting minimum information to provide sufficient details about the event. In this paper, an aggregation algorithm based on splay tree is proposed to achieve the following goals: monitoring data of ...

We present algorithms for a new self-adjusting binary search tree, which we call a shuffle tree. The tree is easy to implement and does not require parent pointers or balancing information to be stored in tree nodes. A maximum of one rotation is probabilistically applied during each traversal, which keeps the cost of balancing activity low. We present tests to compare the performance of shuffle...

We show, by molecular simulation, that for a range of standard, coarse-grained, nematic liquid crystal models, the director bend fluctuation is a propagating mode. This is in contrast to the generally accepted picture of nematic hydrodynamics, in which all the director modes (splay, twist, bend, and combinations thereof) are overdamped. By considering the various physical parameters that enter ...

Heat flow measurements were conducted at four sites in the Nankai accretionary prism southeast of the Kii Peninsula, around the area where the megasplay fault reaches the surface, in conjunction with long-term monitoring of bottom water temperature at nearby stations. Analysis of the obtained data showed that variations in bottom water temperature seriously affect surface heat flow measurements...